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(No Model.)

J. W. GARLAND. GHAIN LINK.

No. 576,107. Patented Feb. 2, 1897.

wn'usss es I mvzn'ron UNITED STATES JOHN \V. GARLAND, OF PITTSBURG,

PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE GARLAND CHAIN 00., OF SAME PLACE.

CHAIN-LINK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,107, dated February 2, 1897.

Application filed April 11, 1894:.

T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN \V. GARLAND, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chain-Links, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is designed to aitord a chainlink of simple and cheap construction and having great strength.

It consists in a link made of a single piece of wire or other metal rod bent so as to form a simple loop whose sides are laterally separate and do not cross each other at the center, one side being constituted by a continuous portion of the metal, the free ends being brought together at the middle of the other side, twisted together, and extending transversely to the continuous side, so as to form a central brace.

As shown in the drawing, a continuous piece of wire is reflexed, so as to form the end portions 3 of the loop, and at the middle of the side 4 the free ends of the wire are twisted together to form a cross-bar 5, and together they extend across the loop to the continuous side 6, around which the ends are bent. The

cross-bar 5 braces the loop, enabling it to reslst great strain.

Serial No. 507,122. (No model.)

'I claim- 1. Achain-link made of asingle rod or wire, bent to form a loop whose sides are laterally separate and do not cross each other at the center, one side of the loop being constituted by a continuous portion of the metal, the free ends being brought together at the middle of the other side and twisted together to form a cross-bar which extends across the loop and is bent about the continuous side; substantially as described.

2. A chain-link made of a single rod or wire, bent to form a loop whose sides are laterally separate and do not cross each other at the center, one side of the loop being constituted by a continuous portion of the metal, the free ends being brought together at the middle of the other side, and twisted together to form a single cross-bar which extends transversely to the continuous side.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

JOHN w. GARLAND.

Witnesses:

W. B. OORWIN, H. M. OORWIN. 

